Chuck Billy, Testament’s frontman, is preparing his solo album, which will have a bluesy, rock sound will potentially feature Lamb Of God, ex-Megadeth and Exodus members. The legendary singer has reached out to guitarists like Mark Morton, Gary Holt, Glen Drover, and Stephen Carpenter of Deftones about this effort.
Billy commented: “Well, it started [to be] in the works, but then things just kind of got held up. I was recruiting some guitar players over the last six months to write a record with me, and I was gonna use a different guitar player on every song to help me write songs. Mark Morton, I’ve talked to him; he wants to work [with me]. I also want Gary Holt to write some songs with me. Glen Drover is gonna write some songs… I haven’t approached my cousin Stef from the Deftones yet, but I’m gonna see if he’ll wanna write a song with me. I tried to reach out to Joe Bonamassa [to] write a song with me”. And he continued, telling that he didn’t want a Testament-like album, but a more old-school, bluesy, rock style with an analog production: “I want it to be different. And what I’ve told all these guys [is] that I wanna do a solo record, but I don’t want it to resemble Testament; I wanna do something different. And the direction I wanna go is the old classic vinyl-sounding records — just real, clean and dry and big. Real tones — not compressed digital stuff. I want it to be classic sounding, but have it rock, have it bluesy. Have some metal, but just have it where [it doesn’t sound like what people are used to hearing from me]”.
